- No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
- Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
- Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
- Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
- When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
- Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
- If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
- To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.